Category: Digital Leaders

Digital Leaders are pupils trained to be experts and advocates of using appropriate technologies in schools allowing them to act as ambassadors and peer mentors for staff, students and parents. There are hundreds of schools with thousands of Digital Leaders across the UK and feedback from pupils and staff at the schools is overwhelmingly positive. This has resulted in a range of connected technologies and pedagogies used effectively to raise self-esteem, improve attainment, independent learning and engagement across the curriculum. Many Digital Leaders support the management of a range of technologies across the school reducing the workload of teachers and the Computing subject leader.

A few weeks ago I worked with a group of schools from the Catholic School’s Partnership delivering day 2 of the Digital Leader Academy Plus programme. The first part of the session was given to the children to demonstrate how they had developed...

Last week I visited Killinghall Primary school to talk to their digital leaders. I was warmly met by Halimah, Elizah, Romaisa, Zara, Zuhayr, Hasnain and Mr Beaumont. The children attended Day one of the Bradford Digital Leader Academy in October and this was...

I recently visited Burley Oaks Primary school to talk to their Digital Leaders. I was enthusiastically met by Daniel, Gracie, Zach, Megan S, Megan R and Ms Archer. The children attended Day one of the Bradford Digital Leader Academy in October and this...

Last week I visited St William’s Catholic Primary school to talk to their digital leaders. I was warmly met by Nicholas, Musa, Hannah, Harry, Wiki, Reece and Mrs Battersby. The children attended day one of the Bradford Digital Leader Academy in October and...

As part of our Digital Leader Academy we have online badges accredited to Digital Leaders for effective presenting. In order to achieve the Presenter Level 1 Badge the children need to be able to plan, create, deliver and review an effective presentation(s). In order...

In April, I had the privilege of visiting the Digital Leaders at St Anthony’s Clayton in Bradford. They are participating in the Bradford Digital Leader Academy programme and I was visiting to see how they were getting on and was warmly welcomed by...

Our very successful Digital Leader Academy will be running again next year and we are putting the final touches to the programme as we speak. We are also in the process of launching a second programme called Advanced Digital Leader Academy for pupils who attended...

Earlier in February, I had the opportunity to visit Digital Leaders at St Clare’s Catholic Primary School in Bradford to see how they were progressing after their first day of training at the Bradford Digital Leader Academy. The first thing the children did...

My colleague Steve Dale recently visited the Digital Leaders at St Paul’s CE Primary School who are enrolled in our Digital Leader Academy programme to find out what Digital Leader activities they had undertaken since the initial day’s training. He spoke to some...

I recently visited the Digital Leaders at St. Matthew’s Catholic Primary in Allerton who are enrolled on our Digital Leader Academy programme to find out what Digital Leader activities they had undertaken since the training. During the first day of training we introduced...